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vowed tuy upright motives, the fatigue and other in c:lnveniencies of the journey, instead of increasing indi,p,),ititin, appeared to promote . the rt-esta bhihment of my health ; so that. on my arrival at Valrncia, in th e: month ofJun,edast, I was invested with the command of the iiavaoced guard of its i my, on its first motement slabsevent to my ar rival, to proceed against the enemy, and,l have had the peculiar satisfaction to enter Ibis capital entrust ed with the cotßmand of one of its columns. " If the present war had its ori g in in the ambition of a Monarch, or the intrigues of Cabinets, I should have conceived that I had discharged my duty by my prompt return to Spain, and the exertion of my personal services ; but the preservation of our Ca tholic faith, the liberty of our country, and the re establishment of the throne of Ferdinand VII. the most amiable of Monarchs, constitute a cause so sa cred and important, that personal sacrifices alone are .not enough, on the part of thOse who, . like myself and others of my rank, possess means which, op portunely applied, may render more considerable and extensive services- Impressed - With this truth, and believing that I am merely the administrator of the riches which Providence has bestowed upon me, I have resolved to circulate in all the towns and vil lages on my estates, and throughout my domains, this present Manifesto, accompanied with a list of the rents which I remit, and the-donations which I make to same persons in consideration of the injuries which they suffered from the march of the French, and to others, in order to assist them in supporting . the common cause. I expel that my example in this reipe6t will operate as a stimulus to ail the wealthier classes, of people in the towns and villages dependent upon me and that, irnpressed with simi lar sentiments, they will cheerfully assist me in pro moting the interests of the good cause, which has been as unanimously espoused by the whole• nation, as it has been vigorously supported by their uniform ly charaaeristic valour. (Signed) ‘ 4 The Duke of Ai.Buauauaua." ". Madrid, Aug. 14." 4 „* We particularly call the attention of our Readers.to an Article respeding the Military Condud and Character of BUONAPARTE, in THE SUN of this day, as it comes front a source from which we have received many very valuable Communications, and from which we have the pleasure of . knowing that we may expert many More, MM I.S. ARA IV ED-2 Dublin, 2 Waterford. Du s— t Gottenburgh, t Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS TH:S DAY AT TWXLVE a'CLOCK. CcnsolB - - 7 _7 6511 I Omnium - 21 THE SUN. EOLEM QUIS DICSAI lALSUM AUDEAT ? L 0 ND 0 Ni MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26; 1808. BY the Cuckoo Schooner, which arrived At Ply , mouth on Sattirday from Gijon, Letters have been received from Madrid .of the 9th, from Valladolid of the 13th, and from Gijon of the 16th inst. It appears that the Spanish armies are rapidly con centrating themselves, for the purpose of driving the French from the strong positions they occupy behind the Ebro. According to the last accounts, General BLAKZ had , reached - his position at Reynosa, and was going to occupy Biscay and Guipuscoa, assisted by the Asttnian Army. General CtlEstiii.' was . • marching to support his right. Get*ml`C;(sTANos had left Madrid with his cavalry, and Was guing to Burgos : his infantry were advancing to Sorreia.— General LLAMAS was marching to join General PA- LA FOX. The French attempted to surprize General PA LAFOX ist Tudela, but he effeCaed his retreat to Sara gossa, upon which the French changed their route, and directed their march towards General BLAKE.. Moniteurs to the 17th inst. have) - 'eklie , A,. town, hut they du not contain one single word -of intelli- genre. Wis state I on -Saturday that the Portuguee Am bassador had received Dispatches from Oporto;- they ‘vere brought by Capt. Chasm and another Portu guese Gentlernan,and Mr.CANNING was immediately apprized of their contents. It appears that the Con: vention between the British Cotrunanders and JUNOT was chietiy offensive to the Provisional Government :eft by the PRINce REGENT, on account of that article which permitted the French Plunderers to take away all their booty, under the character of private pronerty, to France. Et is by no means surprising that the Portuguese Government and People should be particularly hostile to this part of the Convention, because the property, the removal. of which was sanctioned, was chiefly the- plunder of the Church, and permission to remOVe it, was.,:,there f.re considered as a licence to, vacrilege. But tlw French, it. is said, have been guifty of such violations of the Convention,' since it was agreed up.)ll, that they have forfeited all pretensions to hare it Many incidents have been stated of their violence and oppression in this respect, which fully justified the Portuguese in the hostility which they shewn towards the Gallic plunderers, particu larly the exaction of 10,000 d6llars from PEDRO D'Ls.vEt.4, a respedable merchant ; as well as some family plate; the imprisonment of F.s.sNoiz, an Altade, till his friends had raised 60,00 Q dollars fur his release; and the.extortion of near 50,000 dollars from an English merchant, named STE -41.1' INS, who had long resided - in 4lisbon. The following is a copy of the Piotest of the, POT.. tuguese Gener4l nitElitA, against the coe.yention P ROTE S MADE BY BERSARDIN FREIKE DE ANDL:ADZ, GENE- RAL OF THE PO,I3TUGUESk: TiIOOPS`, AGAINST THE ARTICLES OF THE CONVENTION AGREED ON BE-• TWEEN THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH Iq . LIAIES, FUR THE EVACUATION OF PORTUGAL. " I protest, in general, on account of this Treaty beinfetotally - void of that deference due to his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT, or the Government that represents him ; on account of what may be hostile in it to the Sovereign aUttiorhy and independ ence of this Government, and for all that may be 'against the honour, safety, ,and interests of the na tion : and, in particular, I protest against what is stipulated i❑ the following aaicles ARTICLES• I, IV, and Because these Ar ticles determine the surrender-of Portuguese fortified places, stores, and ships, io.the English, forcs, with out solemnly declaring' that this surrender is mo mentary,: and, that it is intended they should be im mediately restored to the Prince Regent of Portugal, or the Government that may represent hiM, to whom they belong, and in whose aid the English forces came as auxiliaries ! .AttT. XVI.--` Because it permits the residence in Portugal of the individu4ls mentioned in it. . . ART. XVII.—‘ Because it attempts to tie-down the Government of this 'kingdom, not to bring to justice and coniAgn punishment those persons Who have been notoriously and scandalously disloyal to their Prince and their. Country, by joining and serv ing the French party : and, even if the ploteetion of the English army shoUld be alloWed to screen them from, the punishment they have deserved, still it should 'not prevent their expulsion, • whereby this country would no longer have to fear being again betrayed by the same men. First of the . additional Articles. -' This Article can by no means bind the GOvernitnent of this King doin, as no reciprocal conditions are stipulated. I protest filially; on account of want of at tention to the safety of the inhabitants of the capital and its environs, nothing having been stipulated in their favour to insure their not being still veed and oppressed by the French during their stay—not even an equivalent for what is 'established by Art. XVI. and XVII. in favour of the French and their fol lowers. And to theSe heads I limit my prOtest, in order not to make too long a list, passing over other ob jects of less importance, .such as the concession of 800 horses, which was made - without considering that they almost all belong to Portugal, and thus cannot be considered as the property of the French; that of the magazines of the army, filled at the ex pence of the country, and consequently only belong ing by fad, not by right, to the unjust occupants of the country. (Signed) •13E RNARDiN FREIR.E'D'ANDRApE.' " 1 - le.td-quarters, at the Encarnation, Sept. 14, 18o8." We think it right to temark upon. this Protest of .the Portuguese General against • he Convention, that it is dated the 14th of September; though that in strutnent was signed the 3oili of August, and the first, Convention for the Armistice on' the is understood that on the e3d, Sir H. DALRYMPLE' shewed that Convention to the Portuguese General, and that he then did not objet to it. A- Report was yesterday circulated, that advices had been received from the Baltic of the defeat of the Russian Fleet, 'with the ross of six Sail of the Line. No such intelligence has leached the Admi t ratty, but from the accounts contained in .the Got tenburgh Mail, we entertain sanguine hopes that we shall shOrtly receive some very favourable accounts from that quarter. It was our good fortune to lay bef9re our Readers the masterly 4raininotion, of tliA. Treaty of Tilsit, which was received with eagerness on the Continent, and has not a little contributed to that general in dignation at the perfidy and hiseneSs of the " High Contriteling Powers,' which, we are per suaded will, at no remote period, break ,in thun der on their heads.. We are now happy to call their attention to a Work of no less moment, ana which prothises.to be of the most essential service in the great struggle that now appears on the point of commencing. It is an investigation of BUOI4A TARTE'S Italian campaign ; a series of atlions which fist introduced •him to tame (for his murdering the Parisians and Tuulonese, by reptated discharges of grape-shot, scarcely distinguished him from 1.14.1aar or CO' LLQT D ' HERBOIS), and which • his admirers are fond of producing as irrefiagable proofs of his being born a complete Commander! We have not yet forgotten the indecent tiinioph with which the bombast trumpeting of these pro digies was received by the " Friends of Reform." The clubs redoubled their toasts, Mr. Rlaicoe cele brated the "genius of freedom" anew, with « po tations pottle deep," and Mr: Fox lost in admiration that sense of duty to his Country which he did not afterwards recover at the feet of BIIONAPARTE. Nor was this all : the triumph over slar, es of I despotism," were eagerly incorporated i nto our 'his- tories, /Vezp Annual Registers propagated the won drous tales, and these impudent arid despicable false hoods were made, without exaMinationahe ground !Jo.) work of a voluminous Narrative; of the War. We embrace, therefore, with uncom won satisfac tion, the opportunity of dissipating the illusion, and furnishing to the lover of truth ample means of re&ifying his opinions, and forming an impartial estimate of the talents of the man who has jog gled the world into an undue admiration. .Nor could' this be done at a more fortunate pea.. riod. BUONAPARTE is apparently about to enter. ,on .a new career of devastation .and bloOd. Treachery, by which hohas effeaed so much, is tIQW, we trust, effe&ually purged from the armies of • his opponents, and credulity in his promises is assuredly no longer to be.-expeated : thus, left to-the sole resource of arms, it is undoubtedly of the highest moment to convince the nations of the Continent that his - talents for war are of no extraordinary or miraculous kind ; that his • errop ha% e' been frequent and important ; that his defeats have been gross and shameful ; and that his ultimate success has been.owing to a most lavish expenditure of.blood, to an amazing inferiori ty of the number opposed to him, to the - imbecility of a few worn-out Commanders ; and, above to the horrible avarice and perfidy of men.. in trust. Perhaps it is no exaggeration to say that; in every baffle fought with the Germans, their Generals have been more in his pay and interest than in those of their respective Sovereigns !. The Author of the following Work is an Officer of high rank, of indisputable talents, of long expe rience, .of inflexible integrity, of honolii, and of truth, and was himself an aetor or a spectator in most Of the scenes which he describes': all that we shall permit ourselves to say more of him is, that it is but lately he escaped from that great .prison-house, the Continent, and its grim keeper BUONAPARTE, to whom he is personally obnoxious, andthat we now present the first fruits of his leisure and security to the public. AN HISTORICAL RECITAL OF THE •CAMPAIWILOF BUO- NAPAItTi IN ITALY, IN THE YEARS 1796 Ai1D,1797. The Campaign - of Italy, coodu6ted' PARTE, is an important event, conne&ed with the • 4 history of the French Revolution. It was this which introduced on the great theatre of the world the man, who, at this instant, is playing the most pro minent part in it. Till that event his first essays to wards notoriety were loSt, and confounded in tbe multitude of revolutionary crimes ; but the rank of Com:pander in Chief held him up to the view of Europe; and from this trust his military existence must be regarded as deriving its origin. This first appearance of a man who will not speedily be for gotten will assuredly create some interest and awaken some curiosity. • This 'has determined us w lay be fore the public the recital of- the pt . * anions of that campaign. 'We say the recital, Oud'ilitof the hist ory, ,for we do not aspire to rank ourAelVesamOng historians. We leave the name and the glory of that high department to those whoie pens are more praCtised and more able than ours, and shall content ourselves with faithfully recounting v' bat we have .seen, and what yet !villains impressed on our recol leetion. In dding this, we are persuaded that w e shall render, we w ill not pr6utne - to say an im, ant; but a real service, by furnishing; ralom OCULAR TEsTistolvy, materials for ruture histAry, which shall have all the merit of inflexible truth. 'This idea has long engaged our at ten t ion ; and The present work would have appeared Some years since, it we bad nut been withheld by a consideration of the last- importance. What is it ? the reader will sap—Briefly this.: There are people who suppose that BLIONAPARTE has the great soul of a hero : what is much more certain, however, is, that he has a most vindittiv& soul. To speak of him without praising him, is, in his eyes, a sensitise injury . ; 'bin to speak ill of him is an unpardonable crimp, even in those who do not live under his laws ; a crime that can only be ex piated by the death .of the offender. The unhappy PALM had but too cruel a proof of this assertion. We found it expedient, therefore; to wait for the opportunity of speaking our thoughts till Providence had placed Ili in' an,asylurn where liberty is secure, where truth preserves all her rights,- and where the prompt and murderous arm of the - irascible tyrant cannot roach : neeJ we.add, in this happy Island. We were close speelators .during that famous campaign, of the evils and sufferings of our coun trymen. We witnessed the Most incredible eXac tions, the most unprovoked cruelties. Our duty is to unfold them, since we anxiously wish to inform mu.' contemporaries : all that can be reqUired on/ our part is, that neither compassion ;nor 1-atr,.'l. l . should IIIdUCCAIS to transgress the bounds of truth ;• and we are in no instance sensible of having done it in the slightest degree., We challenge for witnesses, in this point, thousand; of men who, like us, t,ier spectators of what we describe ; and we have no fear tha: a single individual of• those thousands wig dare to contradia us, unlo,s .he be a.iynophant or a Aare of BUONAPARTE. Many people have persuaded themselves that this campaign was alone sufficient to give BUONAPARTS the reputation of a great General, in whom talents and courage supplied the place of experience. But close examination of his condu& will abundantly prove that all his coups d'essai were not master strokes, and that there were alway sinfinitely more of cunning and good fortune in his success, than of wisdom or real knowledge. And this, perhaps, will lead to the only just conclusion—that any other General placed in the same circumstances, and dis posing of the-Same means of succeeding, would have dote as ITILICIIRS BUONAPARTE, and perhaps more. However this may be, the world ill not , tail to make an observation not a little curious—it iS, that BUUNAPIRTE has shewn himself precisely the same in his first campaign and in his last—in the first, where he was quite a novice, and in the last, where he bad already acquired -a long experience—in ;hp first, where he was the agent of a Republican Direc tory, and in the last, where he was the absolute and all powerftil master of a vast Empire—you constantly see the same man, full of vulgar vapouring, intoNi" cated with his success, exaggerating it without shame, speaking of his enemies with the utmost con tempt, dispersing lying Proclamations to allure the people, and never, on any occasion, keeping a single promise which he ever made. You see hitnusing the same perfidy to deceive the Cabinets of Europe, to parallize the Po%verS, to coil" , ceal his destruative projects uuder the appearance of • a moderation which is only to be found in his words. —You see, the same soul; hard, _unfeeling, and ,sa• vage, counting the whole of the human race for nothing, ready to sacrifice to his persohal aggrandise' meat the French nation, and those which be 1 04 subdued, and 'those which he yet aspires to subdue; prodigal of blood as if it were , water ; in a word, 3 soul which greatness has inflated, but not ennobled; a soul in which the extreme of gdod fortune has nourished and strengthened every vice which ofigua' ally possessed it, and given birth to an infinite awl' titude of new ones. Before we proceed, it is necessary to inform the reader that the obje& we have more particularly in view is to refine a Work called, " The Campaign of Buonaparte in ltaly, during the 4th and sth Years of the French Republic ; by a General Officer. This book, printed at Paris, contains an immense nurob d of falsehoPds ; it alters and perverts faas; it 1 $ monument of adulation and meanness. We•Sh a l'' oppose to it the modest and simple language of truth" and we flatter ourselves that, by so doing, we sh all render a useful service to mankind. If it be tnerite riot's to snatch from obseudiy .names worthy ° praise, it is assuredly not less so, to chase hack 161 oblivion those•reputations which illusion alone 1129 created - , or magnified into notice. (To be continsted.) Dispatches from Lord COLLINGWOOD were re ceived this morning at the Admiralty, and 0° 53 : Rear-Admiral GARDNER, of His Itildji4sty's 13e//erophqn, off Ensiling. Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, Princesses SQi PHiA, AUGUSTA, MAHN - , and AMELIA, ECCOlllpal 3 i e by Ladies liowi and . TuYNNE., General Fri", ° , and Cofonel DEstittow; rode to St. G eo rge . ' Li n ; pel, and . heard a Sermon preached by t" il t ' e .6 t h Mr. G UODH ALL , f rom J o h n vii. part of 4 D . 3 vers'e. hey afterwards re t urne d to windsur 4 lace. The Portugn,se Officers who arrived on SattArdal sailed from Oporto, and arrived at Bristol Pi] 141.ia 1 4 d last. The intelligence they brought was iuunediatev seat ofFto the KING at Windsor. Don IMIRANDAs, and six other Spanish Officers; chiefly of the itegitnent of Villa Vi c i osa, reach,.'" Funen after the departure of the Marqui s R o mAO' and seized a boat, with a view of following to Ling,e Lind the French, who wer e ap p r i ze d of their inL° l '; tion, suffered.tbeni to embark, but fired on theio,s soon as they left the s h ore , a nd sun k the b oat, whey they were all drowned. The Danish Gov er n ment pays monthly 670, 00 a rix dollars for the ma i ntenance o f t h e Frenc h at' Spanish troops - on its territory. This sum aino, l !o to more than th e annua l revenue of his D.1„11;10 Atijesty in times of peace and prospeiity. French remit large sums of money to_ France, ' f f -thus drain the c o unt r y o f i t . Th e French soldied make a common p ra iti ce o f la y i ng , h o ld of eveot •pieceofplate, or other v a l ua bl e -article, which ti ) observe in 'the possession of th e i r Danish friends: ,, to The Danes often remark, t h at i t i s Preferable lo have Great B: itain f or an enemy t h an France f o r ally. Provilions a n d fire-wood hava risen above I° o` per, cent. in Zealand. We are happy to 'learn, that the Gentleman - : - succeeded in reaching the' Marquis Da LA itogitt 4 o l at Ny burg, has lat e ly returnel to this country, a been rewarded for his important service. The latest advices from Spain, which make 113e11 ., Lion of the pris oners b e l ong i n g to DUPONT. 6 arat,o discover no intention of their being speedily sent A, France. On the contrary,. the arrangements to . tog for their- • accommodation and support ind iito their continuance in that country for wine tttn :l Letters from Malaga of the 29th .nit," receive' tb - 3 Saturday, state, th a t ever y distri& is to hav e beg ..; care and maintenanc e . 61 a certain number of t prisoners, eighteen hundred of %;liona had a.rry ° that town as its proportion.